martyrize
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South African authorities had no desire to martyrize anybody with his name.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Senator Watson was too good a tactician to martyrize Senator Johnson and friends with this ex-treme parliamentary measure.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ah! how easy it is to martyrize one's self by some fatal decision made grandly in the exultation of a supreme moment!
From Sacred and Profane Love by Arnold Bennett
She felt too sore and too sick for the aid that comes veiled with inscrutable symbolism, and seems to martyrize when it seeks to save.
From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell
I martyrize her, I know I do," he said to Isaacson; "but I don't believe it's my fault.
From Bella Donna A Novel by Robert Smythe Hichens
He still martyrized himself in his thoughts of Isabel.
From Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Meredith Nicholson
"I am supposed to be left to myself in the mornings," said Peter senior, martyrized.
From Winnie Childs The Shop Girl by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
Archie and Adelle were hungry at this period for more money and felt themselves martyrized by the whim of an ill-natured old man who had arbitrarily made them wait to be wholly happy.
From Clark's Field by Robert Herrick
It is no longer so very laudable for a young man to pay his way through college; and Morris Leighton had done this easily and without caring to be praised or martyrized for doing so.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
The bark contained the miracle working body of a Corsican Christian martyrized by the Romans.
From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Vicente Blasco Ib??ez
When he thought of her in his monstrous shop, wilting in the heat, bowing deferentially to fools, martyrizing her soul for less than two pounds a week, he thought of kings' daughters sold into slavery.
From Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes by Arnold Bennett
She would be capable of martyrizing the whole world to her sense of duty, her damnable, insane sense of duty....
From The Roll-Call by Arnold Bennett
Oh, no," the doctor shook her head; "young couples are always martyrizing themselves for these events.
From The Nest Builder by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
For some reason—perhaps because they thought their case against him absolutely secure and wanted to avoid any appearance of unfairness or of martyrizing him—this restriction had not yet been laid upon him.
From The Air Trust by George Allan England
She thought of how these men, these Brodricks, behaved to genius wherever they met it; how, among them, they had driven poor Jinny all but mad, martyrizing her in the name of fact.
From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair
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